LOS ANGELES - Omar De Anda will never forget that day in January when Altadena exploded in fire.

He regularly parks his truck Tacos 210 on Ventura Blvd. and Fair Oaks Ave. The night the Eaton Fire started, he sent his crew home early and De Anda stayed nearby at his cousin's.

"At 4 in the morning, I remember seeing the embers and the smoke just shooting through the window. And my cousin's like ‘we have to go’ and that's when we decided to get out," De Anda told FOX 11's Susan Hirasuna.

As the fire spread, he realized he had to go back for his truck or risk losing his business.

"The palm trees were on fire. The house over there was on fire, these houses were on fire. I barely saved my truck."

He saved his truck but couldn't save something else that to this day breaks his heart.

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